All the world's a stage - Shakespeare the politician

Considering William Shakespeare hob knobbed it with the upper echelons of English society, including Royalty, he even had audiences with both Queen Elizabeth & King James several times, what if the world’s most famous bard decided to go into politics?

How far could Shakespeare the politician go?

Would he be remembered for anything politically famous?

Or would he go back to writing plays & poems?

And what legacy would he leave for us today, if any, if he wasn't solely into writing?

Anything else?
 
Well wasn't his father a councillor in Stratford? Start Will in local politics, courtesy of the father.
 
Well wasn't his father a councillor in Stratford? Start Will in local politics, courtesy of the father.


He could, although I was thinking, what with his contacts already established thanks to his writings, that he'd start higher up the ladder in London.
 
Easy enough for him to go into another career, if he can get a sponsor. Something tells me Shakespeare will go far, or has the potential to. Maybe even becomes a peer.

Isn't there a timeline somewhere featuring shakespeare as a leading general in a British civil war? Sort of a cross between George Washington, Oliver Cromwell, and Benjamin Franklin.
 
He might leave a lot of witticisms and political quotes, much in the same way that Ben Franklin is quoted today. We might speak of the witticisms of that great thinker, Will Shakespeare.
 
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